3 Saving Images with Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 7 Painting with GIMP 71 7.1 The Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 10 Enhancing Photographs 131 10.1 Working with Digital Camera Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 10.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 15.5.10 Symmetry Painting dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 vii CONTENTS 16

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 GNU Image Manipulation Program 6 / 653 7 Painting with GIMP 75 7.1 The Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 GNU Image Manipulation Program 7 / 653 9 Enhancing Photographs 122 9.1 Working with Digital Camera Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 12.3.4 Painting Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

short overview of some of the features and capabilities which GIMP offers you: • A full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc. • Tile-based memory management so Windows 95, 98, Me, XP, NT4, and 2000, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Digital UNIX, OSF/1, IRIX, OS/2, and BeOS. The GIMP can easily be ported to other operating systems because icons are buttons that activate tools for a wide variety of purposes: selecting parts of images, painting on them, transforming them, etc. The Toolbox Introduction section gives an overview of how to work

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is a FREE software and has many functions similar to Adobe Photoshop such as; image editing, digital painting, graphic design tools and photo retouching and manipulation. GIMP vs Photoshop GIMP Photoshop

Program (or the GNU Image Manipulation Program). The GIMP is a free, robust, powerful program for painting, image processing, and manipulating pictures. If you enjoy using Adobe's Photoshop® program, you'll

graphics into small rectangular points called pixels. Raster graphics is suitable to store digital photos. In contrast, vector graphics is to represent graphics into geometric objects like lines Photographic Expert Group Saves storage space using lossy compression. Most commonly used with digital photos. GIF Graphics Interchange Format Can only store image in 256 colours. Renowned for Raw image formats. (They are referred as RAW despite having other file extensions.) A good digital camera can store files in raw image formats, having minimal processing. They can be processed later

Panel 1 (Tool Box panel). 2. The image appears in Panel 2, the workspace (you can think of it as a digital pasteboard where you are looking at the photo in the middle of your work area which is flanked by